Even people with no medical training recognize its title and its status as a classic text, but Beth Mole writes that Gray’s Anatomy was derivative of other 19th century works and its author, Henry Gray, was a case study in self-aggrandizement: "Notes, publications, and diary entries from Gray’s colleagues suggest that the famous author may have plagiarized numerous passages of the text and was pushy, cut-throat, and resented, a new commentary piece in the journal Clinical Anatomy argues."
